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Isabel Waidner

Isabel Waidner is a writer based in London. They are the author of Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, We Are Made of Diamond Stuff and Gaudy Bauble. They are the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2021 and were shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize in 2019, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction in 2022 and the Republic of Consciousness Prize in 2018, 2020 and 2022. They are a co-founder of the event series Queers Read This at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and they are an academic in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London.


Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read… and Slaughterhouse-Five

Isabel Waidner Recommends Megan Milks, Jess Arndt, Kurt Vonnegut, and More
February 13, 2023  By Isabel Waidner
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